Android TextView is capable of showing text in your Android app and previously we discuss how to add rotating animation with TextView. This tutorial explains how to use MultiColor TextView in Android application.

This is a simple library to display text with multicolor. Let see some demo of Multicolor TextView library:

How to Install Multicolor TextView?

Add to your app module build.gradle

compile 'com.lombokcyberlab.android.multicolortextview:MultiColorTextView:1.0.0'

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For gradle 3.x

implementation 'com.lombokcyberlab.android.multicolortextview:MultiColorTextView:1.0.0'

For maven add to your pom file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.lombokcyberlab.android.multicolortextview</groupId>
  <artifactId>MultiColorTextView</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

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How to use this library?

Using Color sheme

<com.lombokcyberlab.android.multicolortextview.MultiColorTextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        app:text="Google Colors"
        app:colorScheme="google"
        app:textStyle="bold"
        app:textSize="40"/>

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Using Custom Colors

First define your colors:

<string-array name="colorIndonesia">
        <item>#FF0000</item>
        <item>#FF0000</item>
        <item>#FF0000</item>
        <item>#FF0000</item>
        <item>#FF0000</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
        <item>#FFFFFF</item>
    </string-array>

Then use it:

<com.lombokcyberlab.android.multicolortextview.MultiColorTextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        app:colors="@array/colorIndonesia"
        app:text="MERAH PUTIH"
        app:textSize="40"
        app:textStyle="bold" />

Available Options

Limitation

• Only displaying single line text (unwrapped).
• Limited color scheme
• one color in colors array for one character.

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